Remember how the Town of Brookline triggered a Farmer’s Market debacle by telling the organizer of the event that, because of the market, the Town lost $14,300 in parking revenue from the lot where it sets up?
And remember when this site reported that the Town’s chief engineer had recalculated the lost revenue, but couldn’t say [...]
Another day and another resident is forced into Court to appeal a Brookline Zoning Board of Appeals decision. The developer of the controversial residence at One Somerset Road has appealed the Board’s re-opening of a case to revoke the building permit there.
Set aside for a moment the alleged disregard for zoning laws displayed by [...]
Missing, so far, in the brouhaha over the Town of Brookline’s multi-million dollar gift to the Catholic Church for their housing project at the former St. Aidan’s Church is a close look at from whence the “affordable housing” funds come, in order to make the gift.
In his latest contribution in his series “The World of [...]
Remember the story on this site concerning a Springfield Court decision that essentially invalidated the trash fee imposed by municipalities? Remember how Brookline Town Counsel Jennifer Dopazo pooh-poohed the decision by saying, “It’s not a Brookline case, so it doesn’t effect the fee the Town imposes?” Remember that?
Never mind.
Because if the decision’s effect [...]
I’ve reported previously that the Brookline Office of Official Obfuscation (doing business as Town Counsel Jennifer Dopazo’s office) replied to my public records request on the Farmer’s Market debacle by sending me a handful of documents I could have easily found on my own.
I did receive copies of a few e-mails, though. And all [...]
A week ago yesterday I asked Peter Ditto, the Town of Brookline’s chief engineer for the new calculations of lost revenue from the Centre Street West parking lot on the days the local farmer’s market sets up there. He told me he gave the information to Town Counsel Jennifer Dopazo as part of my [...]
This site has been hard on the Brookline Economic Development Advisory Board, but it’s time to give credit where credit’s due. A significant milestone in Brookline’s commercial history occurred several months ago and we let it pass without notice.
I, of course, speak of EDAB’s support in landing a Sleepy’s mattress store to Coolidge Corner. [...]
Looks like 40T, the bill to give real estate developers statewide the power they have in Brookline (you know, to set up their on local government) is back on the fast track on Beacon Hill. Let’s see how Brookline’s State House denizens vote on this one.
Last summer, Brookline’s gerrymandered delegation (Rush, Moran and Sanchez) [...]
Gee, how would anyone come to believe that the Town of Brookline had plans to raise the fee it charges the local Farmer’s Market? Maybe it has something to do with this memo from Marge Amster, the Town’s Commercial Areas Coordinator [click here to read].
Seems pretty clear to me that a case was being [...]
Check out this article in today’s Globe concerning the Middleborough Selectmen withholding documents in advance of a 10 thousand-member town meeting on Saturday. Sound familiar?
Alas, the Middlebouroughians are going to Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin’s Public Records Division for assistance. Blessed are the naive, for they shall become cynics soon. I’ve [...]
